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No.  4. 

APPETITES  AND  PASSIONS: 

Their  Origin,  and  How  to  Oast  Them  Out 

A    LECTURE, 

BY 

ANDREW    JACKSON    DAVIS, 
At  Dodworth's  Hall,  N.  T.,  Sunday  Morning,  Jan.  35,  1S63. 

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PBONOGRAPHICALLY    RKPOBTED   BY    ROBERT   S.    MOORS. 


"  Fetter  strong  maduees  with  a  silken  thread. 
Cure  ache  with  air,  and  agony  with  words." 


A.  J.  DAVIS   &  CO., 

OFFICE    OF     THE     HERALD    OF     PROGRESS, 
ar4    Canal    Street,    Now    York. 


APPETITES  AND  PASSIONS: 


THEIE  ORIGIN,  AND  HOW  TO  OAST  THEM  OTJT. 


"Fetter  strong  madness  with  a  silken  thread. 
Cure  ache  with  air,  and  agony  with  words." 

It  is  customary  to  use  old  words  to  put  new  truths 
into,  though  in  doing  so  I  think  we  have  failed  some- 
what. Old  bottles  impart  an  old  flavor  to  new  wine. 
Therefore  I  prefer  new  words  for  new  thoughts.  An- 
cient peoples  used  the  terms  "Devil,"  "Demon,"  and 
"  Hell,"  to  express  (in  as  strong  language  as  possible,) 
the  play  and  seat  of  the  appetites  and  passions.  Those 
who  heard  these  words  frequently  failed  to  understand 
and  comprehend  their  interior  import.  The  Jews 
adopted  these  words.  Christians  thought  a  personal 
Devil  was  meant,  and  soon  believed  in  a  place  where 
countless  demons  dwell.  Modern  Christians  flounder 
on  the  same  shoals  on  account  of  a  misapprehension  of 
terms.  It  is  my  present  purpose  to  give  you  a  plan  by 
which  you  may  cast  out  these  educational  devils  which 
exist  in  and  haunt  the  mind  through  association. 

Unitarian  and  Universalist  criticisms  prove  that 
orthodoxy  is  the  same  as  was  the  mythology  of  the  an- 
cients. The  terms  "Demons"  and  "  Devils"  do  not 
sustain  the    interpretation  which    popular   orthodoxy 


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APPETITES   AND   J^ASSIONS.    '"'  '  "''^  *^^  '   3 

gives  them.  The  creed-world  goes  on  its  way,  not  re- 
joicing, but  sadly — believing  in  the  literal  interpreta- 
tion of  ancient  words.  They  have  not  heard  the  har- 
monious songs  of  the  universe,  nor  the  "  tidings  of  great 
joy  that  shall  be  unto  all  people,"  or  they  would  ascend 
the  mountain  summits  and  gladly  contemplate  the  per- 
petual beams  of  divine  love  and  wisdom  crowning  the 
surrounding  scenery  through  all  the  eternity  to  come. 
Not  having  heard  these  songs  nor  received  these  "glad 
tidings,"  orthodox  Christians  have  made  the  journey  all 
the  way  from  Calvary  to  America  a. dark  and  dismal 
procession.  Many  of  them  require  ambulances;  for 
they  are  patients  who  have  in  their  minds  the  sickly 
dregs  of  mythology.  These  creed-riden  patients  cannot 
walk;  they  are  rich,  and  must  be  taken  to  church  in 
carriages.  On  the  outside  of  these  fashionable  ambu- 
lances sit  drivers  who  are  beautifully  clothed,  and  who 
wait  until  the  divinity  doctor  inside  the  orthodox  hos- 
pital gives  the  final  dose  of  texts  with  his  sugar-coated 
benediction. 

Those  who  have  not  joined  this  melancholy  ortho- 
dox procession,  are  born  into  the  present.  They  partake 
of  the  fruits  of  the  trees  that  grow  and  flourish  to-day. 
Bitterness  to  some,  but  joy  and  peace  to  most.  Reli- 
gion misapplied  and  not  digested,  or  taken  in  parts 
and  without  conglomeration,  persecutes  its  receivers. 
Great  truths  dawn  gradually.  Most  minds  need  sun- 
liglit  tempered  to  their  short-sighted  spiritual  eyes. 

In  the  Bible  we  read  of  Sheol.  (I  am  now  biblical.) 
"  Sheol"  typifies  the  human  brain.  AH  human  minds 
live  in  Sheol.     All  are  bilious,  and  each  descends  into 


4    •  APPETITES   AND   PASSIONS. 

Hades — the  Liver.  A  human  bei-ng,  when  bilious,  dies 
more  than  once.  The  liver  is  the  prepared  hell  for 
such.  Others  go  down  into  Gehenna — the  Bowels; 
others  to  Tartarus — the  Stomach.  Gehenna  is  the  low- 
est valley — a  place  for  the  deposition  of  that  which  is 
gross  and  corrupt.  Evils  live  in  all  these  "  hells"  in 
the  human  body.  Unhappy  persons  know  that  there 
are  "  unclean  spirits"  in  all  these  corporeal  hells. 

Swedenborg,  for  the  most  part,  wrote  philosophi- 
cally before  he  became  a  Spiritualist.  He  claims  to 
have  received  an  interior  notification  from  the  Lord 
that  he  was  "  over-eating  "  The  notice  was  served 
upon  him  just  as  he  was  entering  upon  his  spiritual  de- 
velopment. He  states  that  the  Lord  said  unto  him: 
"  Eat  not  so  much."  Is  it  not  astonishing  that  a  phi- 
losopher— a  man  who  had  written  the  "  Economy  of  the 
Animal  Kingdom" — should  have  furnished  the  necessity 
of  receiving  such  a  notice  ! 

The  Bible  speaks  of  "  unclean  spirits."  Jesus  cast 
them  out.  So,  also,  did  George  Combe.  Emerson, 
Parker,  and  others,  cast  out  devils.  Dr.  Trail,  of  this 
city,  also  does  something  in  the  line  of  exorcism.  So 
do  all  reformers  in  diet  and  drink.  Few  men  possess 
the  true  amulet — the  will-power  of  the  immortal 
spirit — by  which  personal  evils  are  over-mastered  and 
exorcised.  If  you  do  not  carefully  control  your  appe- 
tites you  will  surely  live  in  some  one  or  more  of  these 
bodily  hells — With  the  fearful  privilege  or  with  the  ne- 
cessity of  making  frequent  visits  to  the  others  ! 

There  is  a  lesson  in  a  child's  imaginative  description 
of  a  Satan.     Once  I  inquired  of  a  little  girl :  "  Susy, 


APPETITES   AND   PASSIONS.  5 

can  you  tell  me  how  a  Devil  looks?"  And  her.  replj 
was:  "A  man  without  his  head,  but  with  the  head  of 
a  hog."  Another  child,  little  Freddy,  said  that  a  Satan 
was  a  "  serpent  with  four  wings  and  a  man's  head." 
In  descriptive  imagery,  in  crude  conception  of  a  painful 
truth,  this  is  not  exceeded  by  Swedenborg,  and  even 
the  New  Testament  contains  nothing  that  exceeds  the 
child's  figure.  Mary,  a  sweet  little  girl,  described  Satan 
as  a  "  little,  shott,  fat  man."  Another  said  Satan  was 
a  man  «  with  a  head  somewhat  like  a  horse."  Another 
described  it  as  a  "  flying  animal  that  gives  sicknesses 
to  people."  One  said  Satan  is  a  "  dragon,  with  power 
to  become  invisible,  or  to  transform  itself  into  a  black 
cat,  a  butterfly,  or  other  beautiful  shapes,  always  trans- 
mitting evils  and  calamities  to  mankind  through  every- 
thing it  touches."  Now  it  is  the  same  with  nations  as 
it  is  with  children.  Children,  in  their  thoughts,  repro- 
duce the  germs  and  sometimes  even  the  forms  of  the 
religions  of  the  creed-world. 

The  human  bodily  organs  and  functions  are  similar 
to  a  wilderness  full  of  animals,  passions,  demons,  and 
unclean  spirits.  Through  our  appetites  we  are  all  led 
into  the  wilderness  to  be  tempted.  Jesus  was  thus  led 
into  the  wilderness.  Do  you  remember  what  preceded 
it?  Baptism!  John,  the  zealous  herald,  went  out  pre- 
paring the  way  for  something  higher — declaring  that 
"  the  kingdom  of  heaven  was  at  hand."  All  high  coun- 
selors and  practical  principles  that  go  through  the 
human  spirit,  are  John  the  Baptists. 

When  one  becomes  fully  prepared,  physically,  to 
enter  upon  the  work  of  a  new  life,  then  the  same  temp- 
tations assail   him  that   assailed  Jesus.      He   is  first 


6  APPETITES   AND    PASSIONS. 

tempted  to  over-eat !  Jesus  fasted.  He  kept  from  the 
common  foods  and  drinks  of  the  day.  His  fasting  diet 
consisted  of  the  simplest  berries  and  most  delicate  fruit- 
products  that  grew  about  the  wilderness.  But  the 
demon,  Hunger,  tempted  him  and  suggested  to  him  that 
"stones  be  made  into  bread."  This  called  up  the  next 
demon,  Impatience. 

In  Genesis  we  find  the  first  tale  of  spiritual  truth. 
It  is  there  stated  substantially  that  a  woman  prepared 
the  dinner  and  then  the  man  partook.  The  first  Devil 
began  his  infernal  work  by  food.  It  was  natural  and 
strictly  appropriate  for  Mrs.  Eve  to  commence  house- 
keeping with  a  commendable  desire  to  select  and  pre- 
pare such  viands  as  would  adequately  tempt  Mr.  Adam 
to  eat  and  enjoy  the  original  "  Thanksgiving  dinner.** 
According  to  popular  orthodoxy,  Adam's  poor  pos- 
terity have  been  more  or  less  fools  ever  since. 

The  Devil  of  Appetite  has  clogged  the  functions  of 
man's  physical  organization,  and  has  sent  great  trouble 
to  the  hells — to  the  bowels,  liver,  stomach,  and  brain. 
Grahamites  go  to  the  other  extreme.  Disgusted  with 
the  Satan  of  Appetite,  they  have  left  his  company  and 
traveled  through  heaven  to  a  very  cold  place  beyond. 
After  a  time  they  return. 

Suppose  you  draw  a  line,  one  end  of  which,  desig- 
nated by  A,  should  represent  absolute  evil,  the  center, 
B,  a  golden  mean,  and  the  other  end,  C,  perfect  good, 
it  would,  perhaps,  illustrate  the  true  life  for  man  to 
lead.  But  one  end  is  not  absolute  evil  and  the  other 
absolute  good.  There  is  good  at  both  extremes.  Man 
stands  enveloped  in  darkness,  his  head  only  looking 
heavenward.     This  is  well  illustrated  by  the  garments 


APPETITES   AND   PASSIONS.  7 

we  wear,  which  surround  all  parts  of  the  body  except- 
ing the  head.  The  head  and  fac^  are  exposed  to  the 
light  and  air  of  heaven. 

Impatient  persons — in  their  haste  to  jump  over 
chasms,  and  because  of  their  wish  to  accomplish  in  an 
hour  what  may  certainly  require  a  week — become  iras- 
cible and  angry.  By  their  perturbed,  nervous,  and 
irritable  conditions,  they  disturb  and  render  unhappy 
those  who  live  around  them.  Nature's  sublime  course 
is  very  different.  All  vast  operations  go  on  slowly. 
Men  and  women  never  become  angels  until  the  demon 
of  Impatience  is  cast  out  of  them. 

Next  comes  the  Satan  of  Anger — a  mighty  demon 
who  disturbs  and  overturns  the  whole  world.  Behold 
illustrations  all  around.  The  development  of  this 
demoniac  passion  between  boys  at  the  street-corners,  is 
parallel  to  what  we  read  in  the  history  of  great  and 
mighty  nations.  A  misapprehension  of  words,  for  exam- 
ple, is  succeeded  by  a  quickened  pulse,  impatient  ges- 
tures, angry  looks,  and  then  blows  and  a  pitched  battle. 
The  spirit  of  Anger  is  instantaneously  communicated 
from  one  to  another,  until  a  whole  community  are 
aroused  and  under  the  control  of  the  demon.  The  de- 
mon of  Impatience  begets  the  demon  of  Anger.  These 
Satanic  majesties  become  instantly  manifest  in  the  rush 
of  blood,  in  the  defiant  attitude,  and  in  the  gleaming 
and  savage  expression  of  the  eye.  Man  is  truly  demo- 
niac when  the  evil  of  anger  is  in  the  ascendant. 

The  next  evil  spirit — generated  from  an  overloaded 
stomach  and  bad  digestion — isjrascibility.  It  is  known 
by  the  absence  of  tranquillity  and  gentleness,  and 
of  sufficient  patience  to  inquire  into  facts  and  positions  ; 


8  APPETITES   AND   PASSIONS. 

and  this  condition  begets  Pride,  which  forthwith  as- 
sumes the  responsibiJity,  fearlessly  indorses  Anger,  and 
gives  unbounded  approbation  and  support  to  the  deeds 
of  Impatience. 

Pride  is  the  most  powerful  Satan  we  have  to  con- 
tend with.  Men  who  haye  reached  "  the  pinnacle  of 
the  temple" — who  stand  committed  and  approved  as 
the  apex  of  some  station  among  their  fellow-men — are 
slow  to  unlearn  their  errors  and  -vices.  The  world  is 
filled  with  professional  characters,  who  are  afraid  to 
come  down  from  the  pinnacle  of  the  commercial  temple, 
to  which  they  have  ascended  through  their  unrestrained 
Ambition.  Such  minds  are  possessed  of  the  worst  of 
evil  spirits — Pride  !  The  worldly  ambitious  man  is  the 
Prince  of  Darkness.  He  is  full  of  unclean  spirits  and 
devils.  Being  afflicted  with  the  demon  of  Pride,  he 
internally  declares  that  he  would  rather  "  rule  in  hell 
than  serve  in  heaven."  So  appeareth  the  Prince  of 
Rebellion  in  the  eyes  of  all  loyalists. 

Another  evil  spirit,  the  most  apparently  amiable  of 
all — a  spirit  of  darkness  appearing  as  an  angel  of  light, 
if  such  a  thing  were  possible — is  the  ungoverned  and 
extravagant  love  of  Approbation.  It  is  the  desire  of 
Praise  from  those  about  us  in  the  world.  Those  who 
are  infested  with  this  evil  spirit,  with  this  amiable 
Devil,  are  always  standing  upon  the  brink  of  a  social 
precipice.  Such  minds  are  liable  at  any  moment  to  fall 
and  be  lost.  In  the  life  of  Daniel  Webster  we  have  an 
illustration  of  what  was  sacrificed  to  this  evil  spirit. 
He  would  have  made  a  g^'eat  and  noble  President  over 
the  country — an  office  to  which  he  could  have  been 
electjed— had  the  mptive  of  his  a,cts  been  a  desire  to  do 


APPETITES  AND   PASSIONS.  9 

right  for  the  sake  of  Right  and  Freedom.  He  was  lost 
by  his  worldly  efforts  to  win  the  golden  opinions  of  too 
many  citizens. 

There  are  instances  of  "  sudden  conversion,"  where 
individuals  have  emerged  from  the  rule  of  these  demo- 
niac spirits.  These  sudden  conversions  are  sometimes 
accompanied  with  contortions  of  the  countenance  and 
writhings  of  the  whole  body.  A  drunkard  sometimes 
.goes  suddenly  to  bed,  driven  by  his  great  suffering. 
After  long  agony  he  may  come  out  a  converted  and  so- 
bered sinner.  Some  people  suppose  that,  on  gaining 
the  spirit-world,  they  will  receive  the  baptism  of  abso- 
lute purification.  Such  are  destined  to  sore-hearted 
disappointment.  Those  who  return,  teach  us  that  all 
the  misspent  hours  of  life — all  the  seasons  that  have 
been  given  up  to  the  reign  of  personal  evils  in  body 
and  mind — oppress  their  spirits  with  regrets  and  pain- 
ful memories.  Meanwhile,  others,  who  have  lived 
truer  lives  and  more  faithfully,  walk  on  the  shores  of 
beautiful  streams,  and  listen  to  "  the  tidings  of  great 

joy."  _  . 

Passions  and  Appetites  do  not  continue  into  the 
Summer-Land,  but  the  effects  thereof  remain  as  adher- 
ing spheres  and  substances ;  and  the  post-mundane 
experiences  arising  from  such  imperfections  are  very 
sad.  When  you  arrive  where  clean  and  beautiful  gar- 
ments are  required,  you  may  find  that  your  wardrobe 
is  either  spotted  or  deficient ;  you  may  appear  unlike 
the  multitudes  of  those  around  you,  and  you  may  suffer 
from  contrast,  from  a  sense  of  unworthiness,  and  thus 
begin  to  realize  that  you  have  not  lived  out  your 
aspirations. 


10  APPETITES   AND   PASSIONS. 

To  CAST  OUT  Devils. — Commence  in  the  first  place, 
and  at  once,  to  live  in  obedience  to  tlie  laws  written 
within  and  upon  your  constitution.  Some  men  seek  to 
cast  demons  oat  by  and  through  the  observance  of  phy- 
siological laws.  Never  expect  to  receive  much  mental 
happiness  through  observance  of  mere  physiological 
laws  ;  neither  attempt  nor  expect  to  be  physically  happy 
by  observing  and  complying  with  mentnl  laws  sim- 
ply. Never  be  absurd.  Learn  philosophy.  Apply 
means  legitimately  to  the  ends  to  be  attained.  Do 
not  seek  to  be  angelic  before  your  time.  Let  all  desire 
only  the  ripeness  of  full  earthly  progress.  Wait  until 
stones  can  be  pulverized  into  soil.  Let  dull  earth  be 
matured,  through  all  intermediate  gradations,  into 
fruit.  And,  above  all,  never  become  Impatient  and  fret 
because  stones  are  not  changed  into  bread.  Obedience 
to  laws  of  the  stomach  and  other  organs — to  live  as 
does  a  good  fish,  horse,  or  other  animal,  if  pursued  ex- 
clusively, even  if  self  is  all  devoted  to  it — will  not 
produce  happiness  in  man.  That  partial  obedience  does 
not  complete  the  requirements  of  your  being.  You  pos- 
sess soul,  spirit,  love,  intellect.  It  will  not  even  suffice 
to  cultivate  your  intellect  exclusively,  or  to  inform 
yourself  upon  the  spiritual  literature  of  the  day,  or  to 
seek  enlarged  conceptions  and  to  fellovvship  ennobling 
thoughts.  Neither  of  these  will  bring  true  happiness. 
"What  is  needed  is  Equilibrium — Balance!  To  pur- 
chase a  farm  for  cultivation,  you  do  not  go  either  to 
Nova  Zembla  or  Patagonia.  You  seek  naturally  a 
clime  within  the  temperate  belt.  Never  live  in  ex- 
tremes !  Seek  rather  a  place  which  comprehends  and 
involves  both  extremes !     A  spirit  demon  cannot  long 


APPETITES    AND    PASSIONS.  11 

remain  with  you,  or  disturb  your  organs,  when  your 
body  and  soul  are  truly  balanced.  You  may  be  tempt- 
ed. But  you  will  quickly  recover  and  be  restored  to 
your  golden  position — that  of  a  philosophical  angel,  a 
recognized  Brother  among  the  hosts  of  redeemed,  while 
yet  in  the  body.  Philosophers  do  not  believe  that  man- 
kind are  infested  and  made  angry  by  spirits  without 
the  body.  The  true  man  knows  he  has  the  will-power 
to  place  his  foot  upon  the  head  of  every  appetite,  that 
he  can  overcome  and  crush,  all  demons,  within  his 
constitution.  Spiritual  truths  come  beautifully  to 
teach  us  that  we  can  purify  all  the  chambers  of  hell ; 
that  the  individual  can  cast  out  all  that  is  evil,  and  un- 
fold that  spiritual  harmony  which  shall  cause  his  bodily 
wilderness  to  blossom  as  the  rose. 

False  Opinions. — The  Churches  hold  that  the  abode 
of  evil  spirits  is  an  external  empire,  and  they  teach  that 
demons  are  persons.  But  the  Spiritualism  of  the  nine- 
teenth century,  as  well  as  that  of  Jesus  of  Nazareth, 
brings  out  the  clear  and  beautiful  gospel  that  man  con- 
tains within  himself  the  powers  of  recuperation  and 
regeneration,  and  teaches  that  the  abode  of  unclean 
spirits  is  within.  There  are  many  who  even  implore 
protection  for  their  appetites,  and  claim  and  expect 
sympathy  for  the  condition  in  which  they  are  brought 
by  the  demons  that  haunt  them. 

The  human  organism  is  full  of  passions  and  internal 
conflicts.  The  means  of  casting  out  the  real  demons 
are  not  prescribed  in  Churches  or  in  the  Medical  Col- 
leges, and  yet  it  is  a  subject  of  far  more  importance 
than  theological  or  simply  moral  teachings.    \ 

Many  and  various  inventions  are  contrived  for  the 


12  APPETITES   AND   PASSIONS. 

extinction  of  these  devils !  The  Jewish  religion  adopts 
a  course  of  strict  personal  and  national  discipline. 
Moses  seemed  to  see  that  many  evils  come  from  Tarta- 
rus, the  stomach,  and  he  laid  down  laws  with  regard  to 
food.  Discipline  was  the  sovereign  remedy.  His  rules 
were  not  always  the  laws  of  God,  although  they  were 
given  forth  with  the  indorsement  of  the  spirit-heaven, 
which  he  deeply  realized  while  writing  them  and  giving 
them  to  the  people. 

Curbing  passions  and  appetites,  and  rigorously  fol- 
lowing Law,  is  what  the  Jews  do  to-day,  the  same  as 
when  Moses  descended  from  Sinai  with  the  tablets  of 
stone.  That  people  walk  in  the  same  old  tracks,  never 
allowing  themselves  to  be  thrown  out  of  the  grooves  in 
which  they  have  been  running  for  centuries.  This 
shows  that  physical  and  national  discipline  does  not 
drive  the  demons  out  of  men.  The  Jews  are  not  broad- 
minded  and  liberal.  Their  system  has  not  advanced 
them  beyond  the  rest  of  mankind.  The  Jews  of 
to-day  are  copies  of  the  ancient  people  who  lived  in 
Palestine. 

Jesus  came  among  the  Jews  and  said  that  the  Law — 
or  at  least  so  much  of  it  as  did  not  accomplish  the 
work  of  casting  out  demons — must  be  put  aside  forever. 
He  announced  that  the  laws  of  Moses  were  to  be  filled 
full  of  new  thoughts.  A  new  method  of  treatment  for 
individual  and  general  sins  was  to  be  adopted.  He  was 
the  first  graduate  of  all  the  spiritual  schools — the  first 
who  really  confounded  the  learned  Doctors.  Instanta- 
neous inspiration  was  soon  adopted  as  a  better  mode  of 
treatmtnt.  Jesus  required  perfect  faith.  He  argued 
that  such  was  the  remedy.     The  early  Christians  still 


APPETITES   AND   PASSIONS.  13 

required  the  work  of  Discipline,  and  Faith  was  the  in- 
spiration by.  which  such  discipline  was  to  eifect  perma- 
nent cures.  To  the  woman  who  came  to  him  to  be 
cured,  he  said,  "  Thy  faith  hath  made  thee  whole." 

Faith  was  and  is  the  central  gospel  of  the  Christian 
world.  Now  let  us  ask  whether  Faith,  the  sovereign 
.remedy  prescribed  by  the  Christian  Church — which  has 
been  nearly  two  thousand  years  in  use— has  driven  un- 
clean spirits  and  demonic  passions  out  of  the  people  ? 
The  appliances  of  Faith  have  been  made  through 
Churches  and  other  institutions  at  an  expense  beyond 
computation.  The  blood  of  innumerable  martyrs  has 
flowe(i  in  defense  of  Faith.  And  yet  unclean  spirits  and 
demons  continue  to  abound  in  men  and  women. 

Not  many  persons  are  healed  by  Faith.  Church- 
members  in  business  and  in  society,  are  the  same  aa 
persons  who  have  not  been  relieved  of  unclean  spirits. 
Discipline  and  Faith  have  led  the  world  to  where  it 
now  stands.  Unclean  spirits  and  demons  continue  to 
roam  through  mankind,  bringing  a  horrible  war  upon 
the  freest  soil  known  on  the  globe.  Neither  Faith  nor 
Discipline  have  brought  men  into  Paradise.  Both  of 
them  seem  to  lead  large  multitudes  down  to  moral  and 
physical  damnation.  To  the  incalculable  benefin  which 
have  grown  out  of  Discipline  and  Faith  1  do  not  close 
my  eyes.  I  am  looking — as  1  trust  you  are — from  the 
center.  / 

Medical  systems  have  devised  methods  of  relief,  but 
they  succeed  only  to  a  very  small  extent.  Amusements 
are  invented  to  lift  men  from  the  slough  of  despond- 
ency. With  many  Tobacco  comes  in  as  a  palliative. 
Many  say  the  happiest  moments  they  experience  in  tlie 


14  APPETITES   AND    PASSIONS. 

twenty-four  hours,  occur  durin<^  the  reverie  excited  by 
a  fine  cigar.  Thus  men  seek  to  render  .oblivious  the 
influences  of  the  evil  spirits.  They  vainly  think  exter- 
nal appliances  will  relieve  them  from  the  sutierings  of 
internal  discord.  Opium  is  used  for  the  same  purpose. 
This  drug  is  an  unclean  spirit  which  sometimes  closes 
the  mouth  of  the  other  demons.  Opium  is  a  miserable, 
driveling,  debasing  character,  who  stands  up  and  re- 
morsely  controls  the  whole  man  or  woman.  Doctors 
cannot  relieve;  Churches  cannot.  What  then  is  the 
true  remedy  ? 

In  a  reformed  state  of  society  do  you  suppose  that 
drug-stores  will  exist?  They  are  so  many  attempts  at 
vicarious  atonement  for  the  unclean  spirits  which  we 
create  and  multiply  every  time  we  overstep  the  bounds 
of  eating,  drinking,  sleeping,  conjugal  love,  or  other 
limits  which  Nature  has  set  up  within  our  being.  True 
reformers  see  that  there  is  another  method  by  which 
these  evils  can  be  exorcised.  Formerly  I  was  disposed 
to  be  somewhat  opposed  to  ministers.  Perhaps  many 
of  you  may  have  been  a  little  prejudiced  against  them. 
But  now,  I  begin  to  think  that  after  all  they  are  about 
as  good  as  mechanics.  But  they  do  not  cure  the  sin- 
sick  an|^  more  than  do  physicians.  When  a  man  is  a 
little  sick,  he  sends  for  a  physician;  he  grows  worse, 
then  he  sends  for  a  lawyer ;  finally,  when  he  gets  very 
bad,  the  minister  is  called.  But  all  these  professional 
appliances  are  but  vicarious  atonements — false  in  theory 
and  worse  in  application — beautiful  and  mysterious 
quackeries,  and  ought  to  be  abandoned. 

There  is  a  world  of  wisdom  in  a  knowledge  of 
inherent  laws,  written  by  the  good  Father  and  Mother 


APPETITES   AND   PASSIONS.  15 

in  this  Book  of  Life — the  human  body  and  mind.  All 
that  was  said  by  Pythagoras,  Plato,  Moses,  and  Jesus, 
may  be  found  hei'e.  Here  we  may  find  the  original  of 
all  that  has  been  sung,  or  painted,  or  chiseled.  Pro- 
gress is  the  law — the  saving  principle — by  which  every 
end  is  accomplished.  Men  may  become  "  masters  of  the 
situation."  Mankind  can  overcome  all  the  "  unclean 
spirits"  that  roam  through  society,  from  bowels,  liver, 
stomach,  and  brain.  Persons  who  have  arrived  at  that 
state  are  entitled  to  be  styled  Graduates,  being  prepared 
to  enter  into  the  kingdom  of  Heaven  upon  Earth.  Such 
should  be  recognized — not  as  fanatics  often  are,  by  long 
beard  and  uncombed  hair;  but  by  their  pure  and  shin- 
ing countenance,  sweet  breath,  calm  expression,  and 
general  balance  of  character  ;  for  such  minds,  when  in 
the  midst  of  discord  and  stormy  passions,  could  say, 
"  Get  thee  behind  me,  Satan,"  and  all  the  ugly  devils 
would  flee  away  from  around  them.  This  is  the 
Redeemed  Man — the  Spiritual  Graduate — a  true  "  con- 
vert." This  end  is  possible,  and  it  is  attainable  in 
this  life.     Will  you  not  try  to  attain  it? 

It  is  an  error  to  say  that  sin  is  a  transgression  of 
law.  No  natural  or  divine  law  is  ever  transgressed. 
Methods  devised  by  men,  and  styled  "  laws,"  are  not 
real  Divine  laws.  Fundamental  laws  are  written 
within  us  by  our  true  parents.  Ministers  apprehend  sin 
to  be  a  violation  of  statute  or  biblical  laws.  Did  you 
ever  violate  a  law  of  your  being  ?  Never  !  Then,  why 
your  sufferings  ?  If  you  understand  that,  then  you  un- 
derstand the  remedy,  and  forthwith  you  may  cast  out 
your  "  demons."  A  Christian  is  converted.  He  is  a 
believer  in  that  to  which  he  wag  converted.     He  *'  be- 


16  APPETITES    AND    PASSIONS. 

lieves  and  is  baptized'' — a  beantiCul  psychological  law, 
with  a  germ  of  spiritual  truth  in  it.  Christians  believe 
that  alter  conversion  they  will  be  happy  !  Are  they  ? 
They  need  ministers  more  after  conversion  than  before. 
They  seem  to  be  more  sick  than  ever.  Perhaps  not  a 
demon  has  been  driven  from  either  bowels,  liver, 
stomach,  or  brain.  A  family  may  obey  all  the  requisi- 
tions of  the  Church,  still  they  need  a  physician.  The 
convert  is  not  in  harmony  with  the  requirements  of  the 
physical  laws.  Laws  of  digestion  go  on  the  same  in  a 
dyspeptic  as  they  do  when  a  man  is  in  health.  The 
law  remains  in  perfect  action.  It  cannot  be  trans- 
gressed. But  a  man  may  carry  hia  system — a  part  of 
it — beyond  the  requirements  of  other  parts,  and  the 
law  of  digestion  protests,  and  at  that  point  "  unclean 
spirits"  assemble,  and  then  what  an  interesting  condi- 
tion he  is  in  for  living !  A  walking  pandemonium  in  the 
midst  of  sunlight,  stars,  and  clear  skies  !  Perhaps  he 
has  wealth,  and  oifers  one  hundred  dollars  to  his  phy- 
sician to  make  him  well !  Such  a  man  cannot  be  made 
well  by  medicine.  He  cannot  be  placed  where  he  will 
realize  the  requisitions  of  the  law  of  digestion.  He  is 
the  same  miserable  man  notwithstanding  he  claims  to 
have  the  "fellowship  of  the  Holy  Ghost."  A  good 
church-going  farmer  who  does  not  understand  agricul- 
ture, and  who  does  not  obey  the  requirements  of  the 
laws  of  seasons,  cannot  obtain  large  crops.  No  Christian 
fellowship,  no  priest,  no  prayers,  can  secure  him  a  great 
harvest.  Whilst  one  who  never  goes  to  church,  if  he 
comprehends  and  lives  up  to  the  laws  of  seasons,  may 
secure  bountiful  supplies. 

If  a  man  is  not   in  relation  to  spiritual  love,    by 


APPETITES   AND   PASSIONS.  17 

which  he  is  enabled  to  see  truths  as  they  are,  he  is 
miserable.  He  attends  to  the  law  of  business  as  well 
as  to  the  laws  that  regulate  social  life,  and  he  may  suc- 
ceed both  in  business  and  socially.  As  a  family  man, 
who  is  a  good  provider,  he  is  liked  by  the  community. 
But  if  he  does  not  harmonize  with  spiritual  laws,  and  does 
not  understand  why  truth  is  better  for  him  than  error,  he 
is  in  a  precarious  position  and  calls  for  strength.  If  he 
does  not  harmonize  with  the  law  of  conjugal  love,  but 
suffers  the  presence  of  the  demon,  and  furnishes  it  with 
food  and  drink,  and  accepts  the  physician's  prescription 
of  indulgence  as  a  remedy — as  most  physicians  advise — 
and  if  he  is  spoken  to  from  the  pulpit  in  poetical  strains 
and  through  symbolic  figures,  without  receiving  and 
comprehending  the  spiritual  law,  he  goes  to  outer  dark- 
ness, where  he  finds  "  weeping,  and  wailing,  and  gnash- 
ing of  teeth."  He  has  not  violated  the  conjugal  law. 
The  mistake  is,  he  did  not  come  into  harmony  with  it. 
Fourier  taught  the  divinity  of  the  passions  ;  that  they 
are  the  voices  of  God :  and  that  what  they  prescribe  it 
is  right  for  men  to  do.  He  meant,  I  think,  just  what  I 
mean  when  I  say  "  love  ;"  but  as  it  is  generally  compre- 
hended, it  means  yielding  to  the  passions  the  right  to 
rule  the  individual. 

Now,  here  on  the  earth  man  is  intended  to  be 
simply  and  only  a  healthy  and  happy  human  being : 
neither  an  animal  nor  an  angel.  The  animal  is  past ; 
the  angel  is  future. 

Be  invariably  considerate  of  the  natural  rights  of 
others;  live%t  home  and  be  human;  and  do  all  things 
for  the  benefit  of  those  around  you,  and  for  the  good  of 
all  the  world.     lAve  to  a  purpose,  and  it  will  give  you 


18  APPETITES   AND   PASSIONS. 

majesty  of  position  and  influence.  Single  men  and 
women  can  only  be  half-persons,  and  ihe  mischief  is 
that  so  many  in  so-called  married  life  are  but  "  half- 
persons,"  performing  the  comic  drama  of  conjugal  love, 
and  continuing  the  vulgar  farce  of  pretending  to  possess 
domestic  happiness.  In  marriage,  passion  and  impa- 
tience oftentimes  become  the  destroying  demons. 

Perhaps  you  have  a  desire  to  come  into  the  relation 
of  a  parent:  this  is  in  accordance  with  the  law  of  Pa- 
rental love.  A  full-grown  person,  who  has  not  entered 
upon  that  relation,  must  love  something  which  will  be 
equivalent,  for  the  time  being,  to  a  child.  Many  sub- 
stitutes are  sought  and  tried,  and  sometime^s  a  person 
will  resort  to  that  most  miserable  of  all  substitutes — a 
poodle-dog.  Those  who  do  not  harmonize  with  such 
laws  have  constant  vague  longings,  and  are  frequently 
dissatisfied  with  life. 

If  we  do  not  develop  Fraternal  love,  if  we  do  not 
go  out  from  our  children  to  visit  our  neighbors,  and 
that  too  for  the  sake  of  being  useful  to  others,  then  we 
are  still  under  the  rule  of  some  demon.  Self-love 
brings  in  its  painful  limitations.  These  are  the  natural 
punishments  which  come  to  all  who  live  for  themselves 
alone.  Very  selfish  persons  are  always  miserable. 
Seek  to  know  and  truly  love  a  Principle,  and  not  give 
rein  to  your  passions,  which  are  demons.  Each  may 
be  a  sun  which  can  shine  efi'ulgently  on  other  orbs — on 
a  child,  a  sister,  brother,  neighbors,  or  on  other  per- 
sons about  you — and  their  reciprocations  will  be  ever 
promotive  of  joy  and  spiritual  satisfaction. 

The  sure  way  to  Grow  is  to  come  first  into  strict 
harmony  with  the  laws  that  regulate  the  body,  then 


APPETITES   AND   PASSIONS.  19 

seek  to  fulfill  those  which  regulate  the  mind.  Com- 
mence with  the  stomach  and  do  not  over-eat.  Learn 
that  all  that  disturbs  the  physical  nature  disturbs  the 
inward  harmony.  Never  live  wholly  for  yourself. 
Whatever  purpose  you  live  for,  let  it  be  sacred  to 
your  heart,  and  it  will  dignify  and  save  you.  Then 
heavenly  whisperings  will  come  to  you,  which  will 
make  you  realize,  that  although^  you  are  strictly 
human,  nevertheless  you  are  but  little  lower  than  the 
angels. 


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John  S.  Adams, 15     03 

LOVE  AND  MOCK  LOVE-  or.  How  to  Marry  to  Conjugal 

Satisfaction.    By  Geo.  Stearns,  •        -        •        •        25    03 


PROGRESSIVE   PUBLICATIONS.  23 

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MARRIAGE  AND  PARENTAGE ;  or,  The  Reproductive  Ele- 
ment in  Man  as  a  Means  to  his  Elevation  and  Happiness. 
Bv  Henry  C.  Wrijrht, 1  00     18 

NEW  TESTAMENT  MIRACLES,  and  Modern  Miracles.  The 
comparative  aoioiuit  of  evidence  for  each — the  nature  of 
both;  testimony  of  a  hundred  witnesses.  An  E<say  road 
betore  the  Divinity  School.  Camhridjie.   By  J.  H.  Fowler,     80     05 

MORAL  AND  RELIGIOUS  STORIES;  or  Scripture  Illus- 
trated. A  Book  tor  Little  Children.  By  Mrs.  M.  L. 
Willis. 15    01 

"MINISTRY  OF  ANGELS"  REALIZED.  A  Letter  to  the 
Edwards  Congregational  Church,  Boston.  By  A.  E. 
Newton, 15    01 

OPTIMISM  THE  LESSON  OF  AGES.   Bv  Benjamin  Blood,    60     10 

ODIC-MAGNETIC  LETTERS  OF  BARON  REICHEN- 
BACH.  Translated  from  the  German,  by  John  S  Hit- 
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PHILOSOPHY     OF     CREATION.       By     Thomas     Painn : 

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PHYSiCO  PHYSIOLOGICAL    RKSEARCHES.     By    Baron 

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PROGRESSIVE  LIFE  OF  SPIRITS  AFTER  DEATH,  as 
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PSALMS  OF  LIFE.  A  Compilation  of  Psalms,  Hymns, 
Chants,  and  Anthems.  &c.,  emhodving  the  Spiritual,  Pro- 
gressive, and  Reformatory  Sentiment  ot  the  Present  Age. 
By  John  S.  Admns.  ......  75     16 

PSYCHOLOGY  ;  or,  77ie  Science  of  the  Soul  By  Joseph  Had- 
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PRE  ADA.MITE  MAN.     The  Story  of  the  Human  Race,  from 

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RECENT  INQUIRIES  IN  THEOLOGY.  By  eminent 
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RELIGION  AND  MORALITY.  A  Criticism  on  the  Jewish 
Jehovah,  Patriarchs,  Prophets,  early  Church  Fathers, 
modern  Church   Leaders,  &c  ,  ....  80     05 

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RELIGION  OF  MANHOOD;  or,  The  Age  of  Thought.     By 

Dr  J.  H.  R..i.iu.-.on. 75     10 

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